Spring of Victory (1974)

Newsreel 1945: Moscow Kremlin.

Announcer Y. Levitan reads (synchronously) the message about Germany's capitulation.

Jubilant people on the streets of Moscow.

Salute in honor of the Victory.

Various shots of the Soviet offensive in late 1944 - early 1945: tanks moving, planes flying, infantry passing, guns firing, explosions.

Marshals G. K. Zhukov, K. K. Rokossovsky and other military leaders at a map.

Defensive battles of the Germans - planes flying, German soldiers firing.

Advance of the Soviet troops - guns firing, soldiers rushing to the attack, a wounded man's arm being bandaged.

Cartoon - Documents from the chancellery of M. Bormann. A. Hitler walks along the line of recruits, pats a boy on the cheek.

Recruits receive uniforms, Faustpatrones.

Battles for the liberation of Budapest (December 1944 - February 1945): Katyusha rockets firing, street fighting, soldiers running, explosions.

Front Commander Marshal R. Ya.

Malinovsky with officers at headquarters, enters headquarters.

Front Commander Marshal F. I. Tolbukhin at headquarters near a map.

Killed Soviet parliamentarian Captain Ostapenko.

Soviet tanks and soldiers in liberated Budapest.

Cameraman R. Karmen films on the street of a German city, a column of German prisoners passes by, German women work to clear rubble, Soviet soldiers feed German children.

Soviet officers talk to local residents.

Newsreel 1938-1939: Pre-war landscapes of East Prussia - a castle, a rider on a horse rides by.

Newsreel 1941-1945: The city of Rastenburg.

The interior of the bunkers of the "Wolfschanze" (Wolf Pit), where the headquarters of the Hitlerite command was located in 1941-44. German guns are firing, soldiers.

The offensive of the Soviet troops.

Marshal Chernyakhovsky and other military leaders are standing.

Combat operations of the Soviet troops in Eastern Pomerania. A. Hitler talks with the generals at headquarters.

Photographs of Gimmer, appointed commander of the front.

The battle in the port of Danzig (Gdansk), filmed by cameraman V. Mikosha.

A sunken German ship.

Soviet tankers on the shore of the Baltic Sea.

The battle for the capture of Koenigsberg - guns are firing, soldiers are running to attack, climbing the slope along a rope ladder, Soviet tanks are entering the fortress.

Captured German officers are leaving the building, among them the commandant of Koenigsberg, General Lash.

Columns of German prisoners of war are passing by.

A broken military equipment on the battlefield,

Newsreel 1945: Battles for the liberation of Vienna.

Soviet soldiers talk to Austrians on the streets of the liberated city.

The Austrian flag is raised over Vienna, an orchestra plays, an officer talks to the mayor of Vienna.

The Viennese dance a waltz.

The landing of Allied troops in Normandy: planes fly over, street fighting, a tank drives by.

Soviet troops meet with their allies on the Elbe.

Cameramen filming.

Soviet and Anglo-American troops pass by.

Marshal G.K. Zhukov, General Eisenhower, Field Marshal Montgomery pass by.

Marshal G.K. Zhukov presents the Order of Victory to Eisenhower and Montgomery.

February 1945 - Yalta Conference of the Allied Heads of State.

The building of the Livadia Palace, sentries at the entrance.

The heads of state are sitting at a round table, signing documents. I. V. Stalin, W. Churchill and F. Roosevelt.

National flags of the USSR, USA and England. W. Churchill inspects the formation of Soviet soldiers.

June 1945 - International Conference in San Francisco, which created the United Nations (UN).

Photo - A. Gromyko signs a document.

Beginning of the operation to capture Berlin - Soviet military leaders at a map.

Parade of German troops in Berlin.

Soldiers of the Berlin garrison and police units march past.

Marshals G. K. Zhukov, K. K. Rokossovsky and others at a military council. G. K. Zhukov looks through binoculars.

Storming of Berlin - joint actions of artillery, aviation, tanks and infantry.

Fighting on the streets of Berlin.

A nurse wipes the face of a wounded man.

Katyusha rockets fire, prisoners pass by, soldiers raise a banner over the Reichstag.

Marshal G.K. Zhukov and other military leaders at the Brandenburg Gate.

Destroyed Berlin.

Hitler's Reich Chancellery.

Soviet soldiers are photographed on the steps of the Reichstag.

Newsreel 1941-1945: German planes in the air, pilot firing tracer fire.

German soldiers knock down the door to a hut, haystacks are burning.

A woman with a dead child in her arms comes out of a shelter, a woman among the ruins.

Soviet people are driven into slavery in Germany.

Soldiers leaving for the front march along Red Square.

A tank drives out of a military plant workshop.

Shells are made and a tank is assembled in the plant workshops.

Burning Stalingrad.

German planes are flying.

Soviet tanks and artillery attack.

Soviet soldiers march by, a woman crosses herself.

An old man rings a bell.

People of the liberated city greet Soviet soldiers.

Signing of the act of Germany's surrender.

Victory Parade in Moscow on June 25, 1945 - Troops from different fronts stand. L. I. Brezhnev is among the officers of the 4th Ukrainian Front.

Kremlin chimes.

Marshal G. K. Zhukov rides out onto Red Square on horseback, receives Marshal K. Rokossovsky's report. I. V. Stalin, M. I. Kalinin, S. M. Budyonny, and K. E. Voroshilov stand on the Mausoleum tribune.

Marshals I. S. Konev, L. A. Govorov, and General I. Kh.

Spectators stand in the guest tribune. G. K. Zhukov inspects the troops and speaks from the Mausoleum tribune (synchronously).

Soldiers listen.

Soldiers carry and throw fascist banners at the foot of the Mausoleum.

Nuremberg Trials - war criminals are led.

War criminals Goering, Ribbentrop, and Rosenberg at their trial.

The bodies of executed war criminals.

A train approaches, demobilized Soviet soldiers are met on the station platform, those meeting them throw flowers, hug, and kiss the soldiers.

Meetings of soldiers with their families, returning home - different plans.